US 8,266,543 B2Granted

Device driver and a method of customizing layout of a user interface

AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.

InventorKoji Dan

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Abstract

A device driver or method that operate a periphery device. A display mode storage unit stores setting items, which are operable by a user using a user interface interfacing the device driver, into functionally mutually-related groups, as plates, the plates indicating display modes of the user interface for each group of the setting items. An alignment sequence setting unit sets an alignment sequence for the plates by allowing the user to set the alignment sequence. An arrangement unit arranges the plates in a plate display area on the user interface depending on the alignment sequence set by the alignment sequence setting. Each of the plates has a width that equals either a whole length or a half length of a width of the plate display area, and the arrangement unit arranges the plates in the plate display area depending on the alignment sequence set by the alignment sequence setting unit.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A device driver that operates a periphery device, comprising:

a display mode storage unit, including a processor, that stores setting items, which are operable by a user using a user interface interfacing the device driver, into functionally mutually-related groups, as plates, each of the plates indicating a fixed display layout of the setting items within the respective plate;
a user input unit, including a processor, that allows the user to customize setting of the layout of the plates by setting a display state or non-display state of each plate and by setting an alignment sequence of each plate;
and
an arrangement unit, including a processor, that arranges the plates in a plate display area on the user interface depending on the display state or non-display state setting of each plate and the alignment sequence setting of each plate, set by the user input unit,
wherein each of the plates has a width that equals either a whole length or a half length of a width of the plate display area, and the arrangement unit arranges the plates in the plate display area depending on (1) the width and a height of each plate, (2) the set display state or non-display state setting of each plate, and (3) the set alignment sequence of each plate.

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A computer including a device driver that operates a periphery device, comprising:

a display mode storage unit that stores setting items, which are operable by a user using a user interface interfacing the device driver, into functionally mutually-related groups, as plates, each of the plates indicating a fixed display layout of the setting items within the respective plate;
a user input unit that allows the user to customize setting of the layout of the plates by setting a set display state or non-display state of each plate and by setting an alignment sequence of each plate;
and
an arrangement unit that arranges the plates in a plate display area on the user interface depending on the display state or non-display state setting of each plate and the alignment sequence setting set by the user input means,
wherein each of the plates has a width that equals either a whole length or a half length of a width of the plate display area, and the arrangement means arranging the plates in the plate display area depending on (1) the width and a height of each plate, (2) the set display state or non-display state of each plate, and (3) the set alignment sequence of each plate.

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A method performed by a computer including a device driver of customizing layout of a user interface used for a device driver that operates a periphery device, comprising:

storing setting items, which are operable by a user using a user interface interfacing the device driver, into functionally mutually-related groups, as plates, each of the plates indicating a fixed display layout of the setting items within the respective plate;
setting, by a user input, a customized layout of the plates by setting a set display state or non-display state of each plate and by setting an alignment sequence of each plate;
and
arranging the plates in a plate display area given to the user interface depending on the display state or non-display state setting of each plate and the alignment sequence setting of each plate,
wherein each of the plates has a width that equals either a whole length or a half length of a width of the plate display area, and the arranging arranges the plates in the plate display area depending on (1) the width and a height of each plate, (2) the set display state or non-display state of each plate, and (3) the set alignment sequence of each plate.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.